Using Peplau's interpersonal relations theory (1991), this study explored how nursing educational programs located in Iowa, that prepare students for the NCLEX-RN
examination conceptualize the art of nursing, teach the ...

The problem. This study was undertaken to determine the degrees of social distances expressed by a sample of Area XI Community College students toward eleven selected minority groups. In an exploratory manner, various ...

The problem. The intent of this exploratory study was to understand and document the feelings, attitudes and perceptions of the residents at the Fort Des Moines Women's Residential Correctional Facility. The purpose of ...

The problem. PL 94-142 mandated a process of
developing an Individual Educational Program (IEP) for each LD student and thus replaced the curriculum of the regular educational program. The developmental process of the IEP ...

Problem: Within the higher education community there is discourse regarding teacher
dispositions and the assessment of dispositions. Murray (2007) and Damon (2007) posited that
additional scholarship and research were ...

The purpose of this study was to explore how instructors at a mid-sized Midwest
four-year undergraduate private university view the purpose, structure, format and use of
their course syllabi. The theory of structural ...

The problem. The specific problem undertaken in this creative project has been to observe natural objects in various forms as effected by change of season and environmental influences. These observations were recorded ...

Endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been demonstrated to play a role in many physiological processes including vasoconstriction, cardiovascular homeostasis, inflammation, angiogenesis, and tissue regeneration. A critical step in the ...

Plants respond to external stimuli through signal transduction pathways. An external signal binds the
extracellular domain of a transmembrane receptor-like kinase (RLK) protein, and the signal is transmitted
inside the ...

Placenta Growth Factor (PlGF) plays an important role in the formation and growth of the placenta.
This protein binds two receptors, a membrane bound Flt-1 (mFlt-1) and a soluble Flt-1 (sFlt-1), the
latter of which lacks ...

The Runco Ideational Behavior Scale, RIBS, was recently created as a tool for assessing ideation.
It is intended as a useful criterion for measuring divergent thinking, which includes originality, fluency, and flexibility. ...

Seyfert galaxies, in which accretion onto a massive nuclear black hole acts as a powerful energy source, allegedly have bulges more luminous per unit mass than those in normal galaxies. We have tested this claim through ...

Previous investigations have indicated that the bulges of Seyfert galaxies are more luminous than those in normal galaxies of the same mass. This may result if Seyfert bulges have experienced recent star formation, perhaps ...